I was laying in bed, staying awake all night, for fear of missing my 
appointment with my G.P. who has not managed to achieve any solution to my poor 
wretched hands, spreading blisters now on to the back of my hands, and then it 
dawned on me Elizabeth Fry, and came down to see if I had any empowerment to 
make my G.P. act immediately when I saw you had sent your email.  This is true. 
 "just as One with eyes and a lamp sees form" (Florence Nightingale and the Fry 
Nurses), Hearing is the lamp that dispels the darkness of illusion".  Do you 
think she will hear???  Three lots of antibiotics in 6 weeks is BAD!!!  I 
seriously need top class, 1st rate medical assistance urgently and like the fry 
nurses conducive for my spiritual requirements.

Seriously praying she will be a wish-fulfilling gem, I send you all love and 
prayers, but please send some back.


From: david benn 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:48 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Sounds


Sound and music is now accepted as a form of stress relief but there is another 
form of sound than that music and repetition this is sound formed into words 
which creates words and sentences but these are not mantra or prayer which 
employs mere physical sound of words.

By this facility insane ideas that lead to aggression and war arise from the 
same mouths as elevated words of wisdom of religion and ideas. It is via the 
ability to form words into sentences that thing gain momentum in the very day 
world, also in this realm of communication. It was with this facility that the 
Sage of the Sakya clan {The Buddha} could utter the first words of his teaching 
when he first spoke in Deer Park Varanasi with the Four Noble Truths. The sound 
of music can be pleasurable but it can also be used to utter words of wisdom to 
influence others into becoming thinking beings able to reason and communicate 
inspirational ideas that lead to a more elevated consciousness which lead to 
freedom beyond the realm of sensual repetition and bound to the wheel of life 
and death.  

The seventeenth century Tibetan Lama of the Karma Kagyu tradition Karma Chagme 
says in {A Spacious Path to Freedom; practical instructions on the union of 
Mahamudra and Atiyoga} and commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, translated by B 
Allan Wallace. 

{The Compendium of Hearing states 

“Upon entering a building 

That is engulfed in darkness one does not see the presence of visual form even 
though one has eyes

Likewise a person of good breeding

Even one who is intelligent does not know sinful various things

Until he hears of them 

Just as one with eyes and a lamp see forms 

So are virtuous and sinful things known to the hearing….”

The Corpus Sutra states; 

“Phenomena are known as a result of hearing sin is averted as a result of 
hearing; 

That which is meaningless is rejected as a result of hearing”… 

Birth Accounts says “Due to hearing, the mind becomes lucid, joyful and stable

Wisdom arises and delusion vanishes even if you know this it is worth 
acquiring”…

The Sutra of the questions of Prince Chandra also says this;

“Hearing is the lamp that dispels the darkness of delusion

It is the best possession that cannot be carried off by thieves and so on

It is the weapon that vanquishes the enemy, stupidity

It is the best of friends who gives advice on how to act

It is the steadfast friend even if you become poor

It is harmless medicine for the illness of grief

It is the best of armies that conquers the host of great evils

And it is the best of treasures of fame and glory

When meeting honourable people, it is the best of beings

In public it delights the learned

To opponents it is like the rays of the sun…

Gyatrul Rinpoche comments “Without learning we are not able to recognise our 
own mental afflictions. If we can’t do this, how can we know what needs to be 
eliminated and what steps to take so that excellent qualities will arise”}













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